New monazite U-Pb age constraints on the evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Vaasa granitoid batholith, western Finland

The Vaasa batholith, western Finland, is a large, peraluminous granitoid pluton that crystallized at 1.88–1.87 Ga during the culmination of the Svecofennian orogeny. The batholith has gradual contacts, through metatexites and diatexites, with the enveloping metasedimentary rocks of the Bothnian Belt...

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Main Authors: A.K. Kotilainen, I. Mänttäri, M. Kurhila, P. Hölttä, O.T. Rämö
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Geological Society of Finland 2016-09-01
Series:Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland
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Online Access:http://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume88/Bulletin_vol88_1_2016_Kotilainen.pdf